AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1000MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +77%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

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Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

May 2013

Embedded

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Neptune

E8950

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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